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A Basement Full of Water: Another View of the Health Care Ruling

U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson stopped a leak, but didn’t clean up the flooding…

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Making stuff up as they go

This is not rocket-science. You cannot have a Constitutional rule of law with inconsistent, flexible rules like the courts use.

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The Federal Courts are Complicit

As this ruling and its antecedents clearly demonstrate, the courts offer no hope as they have tied their wagons to the horses of tyranny running roughshod over our Constitution.

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Who Decides?

There is nothing in the Constitution, including the supremacy clause, which prohibits States from interpreting the Constitution for themselves. In fact, the supremacy clause requires the federal and state judiciary to do just that.

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Half a Century of More of the Same

by Connor Boyack, Utah Tenth Amendment Center On August 23, 1958, 46 Chief Justices from the Supreme Courts of the several states gathered together in Pasadena, California. The event drawing their presence was the Conference of Chief Justices, a regular forum for the highest judges in each state to meet and discuss important issues. Their [...]

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Executive Branch Shouldn’t Meddle with the Judiciary

The San Francisco Chronicle Reports: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Wednesday warned federal judges not to meddle in cases involving national security, following a string of judicial rebukes of the Bush administration’s anti-terrorism initiatives. In a speech to the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, Gonzales said federal judges are not “equipped to make decisions [...]

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